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[HarthorneWingo]

So, according to Fox News' Chris Wallace, Michelle Bachmann is a "flake." (Sorry Michelle.)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/2 ... 84686.html

The two Mormons, Mitt Romney and Huntzman, can't win. Romney is a Massachusetts liberal who signed Romneycare into law (plus he's flip-flopped all over the place) and Huntzman did even worse ... he actually worked FOR Obama. (Ewww, cooties.)

Tim Pawlenty could be a threat .... yawn .... but Pawlenty is a pussy and ... zzzzzz (snore).

While there are things about Ron Paul that I like, he obviously has no chance.

Newt's goose was cooked when he called Paul Ryan's Plan "social engineering from the right" ... which is true, but the GOP will not stand for such truths. lol.

Who else, who else?

Oh yes, Herman Cain .... the Muslim hater.

How you gonna beat the man who (1) brought out his long form birth certificate while (2) killing Bin Laden by shooting him in the face, while (3) telling jokes about Donald Trump, while Trump sat in the audience of the WH Correspondents' Dinner? You can't beat that. Not with those losers.

[Pharmcat]

so ed schultz uses the S word and gets suspended

but geraldo uses it and no one says anything about

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/why-did-gera ... %E2%80%99/

so much for the liberal bias

[ewingxmanstarks]

Chicago's Police Superintendent, and former NYC cop (born in the Bronx), speaks out on gun violence. I'm not a religious person, but I stand with him. Do you?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIX4j2sormY&feature=player_embedded#at=13[/youtube]

Just when I had you pegged as a separation of church and state zealot...wait, father Pfleger


No I don't stand with either of you

[ewingxmanstarks]

so ed schultz uses the S word and gets suspended

but geraldo uses it and no one says anything about

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/why-did-gera ... %E2%80%99/

so much for the liberal bias

I already told you that the Mr. Ed thing was a tactic the left uses to limit free speech.... @ Geraldo being a conservative.

[ewingxmanstarks]

Folks, the real news this week was tax cheat Tim Geithner flat out saying that we need to increase taxes on small businesses, so we prevent government from getting smaller..


Im sure you guys believe that as well???

[Pharmcat]

so ed schultz uses the S word and gets suspended

but geraldo uses it and no one says anything about

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/why-did-gera ... %E2%80%99/

so much for the liberal bias

I already told you that the Mr. Ed thing was a tactic the left uses to limit free speech.... @ Geraldo being a conservative.

the ed thing was nationally reported
this one wasnt

shows the real bias

(if it was the other way around, the right would be up in arms)

[ewingxmanstarks]

Geraldo is an investigative reporter, he's not a political player..

Had Oreily said it...the media would have gone ape sh*t.

The Mr. Edd thing was covered, but it wasn't national news.

[tuckerfor3]

the ed thing was nationally reported
this one wasnt

shows the real bias

(if it was the other way around, the right would be up in arms)

I don't condone Geraldo's comments, but the comparison is silly. Schultz called a fellow commentator a slut. Geraldo made the same comment... about an accused child killer, who was photographed partying while her child was missing (not to mention running up shopping bills and getting a tattoo that said "The Beautiful Life"). Again, it was a dumb-ass thing to say about someone who's innocent until proven guilty... but you don't think Laura Ingraham cuts a more sympathetic figure than Casey Anthony?

...not to mention... if Geraldo Rivera is a conservative, then Eddy Curry has Rihanna's figure.

[Pharmcat]

the ed thing was nationally reported
this one wasnt

shows the real bias

(if it was the other way around, the right would be up in arms)

I don't condone Geraldo's comments, but the comparison is silly. Schultz called a fellow commentator a slut. Geraldo made the same comment... about an accused child killer, who was photographed partying while her child was missing (not to mention running up shopping bills and getting a tattoo that said "The Beautiful Life"). Again, it was a dumb-ass thing to say about someone who's innocent until proven guilty... but you don't think Laura Ingraham cuts a more sympathetic figure than Casey Anthony?

...not to mention... if Geraldo Rivera is a conservative, then Eddy Curry has Rihanna's figure.

it doesnst matter who its said too

its a inappropriate word to use on the air, one had to pay for it, the other wasnt even covered...showing hypocrisy, that is all Im saying

[ewingxmanstarks]

What hypocrisy???

MSLSD decided on their own to suspend Mr.Edd...They did so in an effort to rein in on free speech..

Geraldo is an investigative journalist, with, might I add liberal views.

What your saying is nothing

[ewingxmanstarks]

Pharmcat you really shouldn't even follow the news....you don't have the capability to process information...all your doing is getting yourself worked up..

[Pharmcat]

Pharmcat you really shouldn't even follow the news....you don't have the capability to process information...all your doing is getting yourself worked up..

i analyzed it perfectly:

1) one media personality says the S word, and every1 is covering it

2) another media personality says it, and no one says anything

thats hypocrisy

[Pharmcat]

interesting case

http://www.examiner.com/populist-in-nat ... ideotaping

[ewingxmanstarks]

Take off your Dem hat...

One political analyst, one investigative journalist

2 liberals

Had a conservative political player said the same thing the media would have jumped all over it, because MSLSD successfully used tactics to limit free speech.

Who are you to say what words are appropriate on air? I hear the word slut on TV all the time...MSLSD made it a story by suspending Mr. Edd, and you are also greatly exaggerating the media coverage of the story..

[E86]

^^^ .... when was it that you worked in gay communities? what did you do? and, what significance is it that you "worked IN a gay community"? I had gay roommates in college and worked with gay people in my job.

Do you have any authoritative sources for anything you've said?

http://pride-institute.com/programs/lgb ... rug-abuse/

theres one site you can take a look at. you can do your own studies from there. the drug use in gay communities is high.

so yeah, i believe per capita gays are more likely to abuse drugs than heteros. but, to be fair, there are more normal people than homosexuals.

the significance of me working in gay communities is that i've seen what their homes look like, and what the culture is.

i like homos. met some really cool gay people in my life. would i think they could raise a baby? hmm... not the people i knew because most were meth heads that i was introduced to by a friend who went to art school. still really cool people, though.

p.s. were you a top or bottom in college?

[ewingxmanstarks]

interesting case

http://www.examiner.com/populist-in-nat ... ideotaping

Im not trying to pick on you, but again nothing interesting about this story at all.

How would you feel if someone was recording you while you're doing your job? A very dangerous job might I add....knowing full well that they can edit whatever they record, and paint you in an unfavorable light..It would be a distraction wouldn't it?

They asked her to comply, and she didn't, so she got arrested...No big deal.

[Pharmcat]

interesting case

http://www.examiner.com/populist-in-nat ... ideotaping

Im not trying to pick on you, but again nothing interesting about this story at all.

How would you feel if someone was recording you while you're doing your job? A very dangerous job might I add....knowing full well that they can edit whatever they record, and paint you in an unfavorable light..It would be a distraction wouldn't it?

They asked her to comply, and she didn't, so she got arrested...No big deal.

its a blatant abuse of power and they need to be reigned in

its a joke people cant be free on their own property

if they do their job properly, nothing would be painted in a unfavorable light....but since we know there are cases of abuses, they dont want anything filmed

[mugzi]

^^^ .... when was it that you worked in gay communities? what did you do? and, what significance is it that you "worked IN a gay community"? I had gay roommates in college and worked with gay people in my job.

Do you have any authoritative sources for anything you've said?

p.s. were you a top or bottom in college?

[rsavaj]

Personally, I find the "all the homosexuals I knew were meth heads, ergo..." argument to be much funnier.

[ewingxmanstarks]

interesting case

http://www.examiner.com/populist-in-nat ... ideotaping

Im not trying to pick on you, but again nothing interesting about this story at all.

How would you feel if someone was recording you while you're doing your job? A very dangerous job might I add....knowing full well that they can edit whatever they record, and paint you in an unfavorable light..It would be a distraction wouldn't it?

They asked her to comply, and she didn't, so she got arrested...No big deal.

its a blatant abuse of power and they need to be reigned in

its a joke people cant be free on their own property

if they do their job properly, nothing would be painted in a unfavorable light....but since we know there are cases of abuses, they dont want anything filmed

c'mon with blantant abuse of power already Where in the constitution does it say citizens have the right to recorde the police ?

It doesn't matter whether she was on her property or not....The fact she was recording them, made them uncomfortable, which interfere with their work....she could have recorded them, and edited what she wanted, causing problems for them....It's understandable why they wouldn't want her recording them.


They were in the middle of police work...She was interfering...they asked her to stop...she disregarded the instructions...to assume that because they didn't want her recording them, means that they were behaving inappropriately is wrong....had there been proof of them acting inappropriately, then I would be with you, but you have no evidence, your just jumping to conclusions, because to you the cops are the bad guys.

Does it not make sense to you that cops don't want to be recorded while doing their job? Do they have to be corrupt to not want to be recorded?